NikthePNstudent

In the area in which I live big hopsitals are no longer hiring LPN's, however LTACH's (Long-term acute care hospitals) around here are starting to use a lot more LPN's. It's not labor and delivery but it's still hospital experience so it could be something you might want to look into. Good luck!

Get yourself a calendar, and a few highlighters. Get all your syllabi together and start writing the due date for every test/assignment/whatever in the calendar. Then highlight all of the due dates, and try to color coordinate. For example, for fundamentals I use blue, for pharmacology I use pink, etc.. This really helps me to remember things, and make sure to keep it somewhere you will see it every day.

I think most, if not all, of us CNA's have had an incident where either a resident has fallen or had to be guided to the floor while they were under our care. It happens. We're human and being such, we are fallible. Anyhow, I remember an incident when I first started as a CNA at a LTC facility. I was assigned a fairly large man with one leg that needed to get up to go to dialysis. He convinced me that he could stand on the other and mid-transfer his leg buckled and I had to guide him to the ground. I felt horrible, but he was fine and it wasn't the end of the world. I also learned that I wasn't as strong as I thought I was haha.

I'm not entirely sure if this is a question, but here's my 2 cents. I can only speak from my own experience, which is the following: I've worked in LTC as a CNA for over two years and what I can tell you is that there are always opportunities to get overtime. However, there's a reason that there are always hours available: The work is difficult and there's a high turnover rate. But if you need the money, and can handle the workload, you can have all the hours you could want. I once knew a CNA that would work doubles whenever the opportunity presented itself (which was pretty much every day) and would go home with a nice chunk of change on payday, but I don't recommend working doubles all the time because it's detrimental to your own health and puts your residents at risk. So, if you need hours and you need them now, I would recommend getting a job at a LTC. I'm not sure about hospitals, but what I've heard from other CNA's in my neck of woods is that they don't get many hours because as the census declines the CNA's are usually the first to get their hours cut. Good luck! :)

Hello, I'm in my second semester of the PN program. First, you got a certificate of completion from CSN, not your CNA certification. You need to have your CNA certification from the BON because, if I remember correctly from when I applied last year, they ask for your certification number when you apply for the program. I'm a little confused, however, how it is that you are no longer eligible to take the state exam. I've known people that have failed it the first time around and then just took it again at a later time.

Thank you all so much. I can't even begin tell you how much it helps to know that others don't believe that I ruined my career :) To JustBeachyNurse: My supervisor was very sympathetic towards my situation. After I was done explaining it all to her she told me that she just wants me to take care of myself first and foremost and then went on to say that I had a bright future ahead of me.

Here's the story: I am 20 years old and I have worked at a LTC facility as a CNA for a year and nine months. It was my first job and I loved working there, and I never thought I was going to leave the place, however I did. I am in the middle of an LPN program, I was working part-time and everything was going great until a dear family member, that lives with my mother and I, was diagnosed with stage IV cancer. The stress of it all began to eat away at me and soon I found myself depressed, stressed out, and just entirely overwhelmed. In that state of mind I knew that I could not give my residents the best care I could give. So I decided at that moment that I had to choose between working and school because I truly felt like I could no longer handle both, and I chose school. After coming to that decision I went to work a few days ago, explained everything that was going on to my supervisor and ADON, who were both very sympathetic about the situation, and resigned immediately without a two week notice. I wasn't on the clock so I know that it wasn't counted as abandonment, but now I feel like I've completely ruined my career before it even really got started since this was the only job I've ever had. Now I'm scared that once everything in my life has settled down and I'm ready to go back to work, somewhere else of course, that nobody will hire me due to me resigning without proper notice. I was never written up and never had any disciplinary action taken against me, my resignation was my only mistake. Have I inadvertently messed everything up, or is there still hope?